Solid fills in layer 'overlay mode' don't print

[Nicholas Weedon]

We often like to apply solid colour fills over scanned images. Since upgrading from 9.0 to 10 we find that solid colours do not print (or appear on print preview) and that one of the pattern colours "paints" over the image. What's happened? ... or how can we get the same result again?

[Guest]

The overlay mode is a transparency like affect.

This is not supported when printing to PS printers. All objects on an overlay layer will print as they would on a paint layer.

[Nicholas Weedon]

Thanks for that, but it doesn't explain why it worked perfecctly before in VW9.0, using the same printers. Unfortunately we don't expect such a major disadvantage from upgrading (though we are really enjoying the graded colour fills).

[Guest]

Are you under the same OS and printer?

[Nicholas Weedon]

Hi again,

We upgraded from Mac OS 9 to X at the same time. [Maybe my wry comment about the benefits of upgrades are better directed to Apple]. The printers are the same- though we had to update the drivers to work with OS X. If you are familier with such issues, we'd appreciate any advice. In case it helps, the printers are Epson Stylus Colour 1150 and HP Designjet 450C- the latter driven by a UK based software called Microspot X-Rip. It's worth noting that the solid colour fill overlays disappear on print preview irrespective of the printer selected. Graded fills behave as if in 'paint' mode.

Thanks, Nick.

[Guest]

Xrip is limited in this area. It does not have all the same options as the ripping software under OS 9. They are working on expanding the XRip software in the near future.

Did you have transparency prints with this printer under OS 9?

I think under OS 9, this printer utilized QuickDraw to do the transparency printing. OS 10 dropped this from what I understand .. so if the printer relied on QD to print transparent, then OS 10 can't do it.

And yes .. you can take it up with Apple. VW can only do what the printer/OS allow us to do.

[Nicholas Weedon]

Thanks very much for that. It's definitely an OSX and also X-Rip issue. We have got around it by keeping OS9 on board, devising a way of opening VW10 within OS9 and using this whenever we need to print overlaid colours. Thought I'd tell you as I found others have battled with this under the 'printing from VW' forum.

[sebastian]

Hello

we've had this same problem

printing in OS X 10.1.5 to epson 1520

using stylus rip and a HP laserjet 4MV

postscript printer.

We'd love to know how to open VW10.5

in OS9.2 withouth re starting in that mode.

Any help would be great

[Guest]

In VW 10.5, you can check mark print as raster and the overlay mode should print with transparency.

If you want VW to launch in OS 9, close VW.

Go to the VW folder.

Get info on the application (blue v with the red arrow).

Check mark Launch in Classic Mode.

Close that dialog box.

Double click on VW and classic should launch and VW will run in OS 9 classic while still working in OS 10.

Please note, running classic mode in OS 10 can use of a good chunk of memory. If you are doing memory intensive operations in VW, you may run in memory related problems.